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...need for a non-commercial printing press in the United States is widely felt and acknowledged. Many valuable writings by the most eminent scholars can not be made accessible to others, because of the fact that the commercial publisher can not afford to publish them. In England the presses of Oxford and Cambridge supply this need, and are splendidly equipped with all the necessary type that higher scholarship requires in such fields as Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and mathematics--a fact which often forces American writers to go to England to have such books printed...
From an unprejudiced point of view the Yale-Princeton game will afford more interest today than the contest in the Stadium, but the fact that the game here is Dartmouth's last this year and that a defeat for the University team would practically obliterate Harvard's hopes of the championship, will attract the attention of nearly 40,000 spectators. The chief anxiety will be to see how Harvard is able to meet the forwards who last Saturday threw back the Princeton line time and again. If Harvard succeeds in this particular the prospects for the following Saturday will...
...greater seating capacity and its excellent acoustic properties. This is the first year of a second four years' course of classical and modern chamber music, which has been arranged by a number of persons, chiefly Harvard alumni, interested in musical education, who feel that American universities do not afford sufficient opportunities for developing the musical taste of those of their members who are not especially devoted to musical studies. In order, therefore, to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty, they have united on the following proposals...
...greater seating capacity and its excellent acoustic properties. This will be the first year of a second four years' course of classical and modern chamber music, which has been arranged by a number of persons, chiefly Harvard alumni, interested in musical education, who feel that American universities do not afford sufficient opportunities for developing the musical taste of those of their members who are not especially devoted to musical studies. In order, therefore, to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty, they have united on the following proposals...
...Head Coach Field has given only light work to the Yale players since the Wesleyan game on Wednesday, and yesterday's practice was confined to getting the team working more as a unit. As the University team meets Holy Cross next Saturday, today's game at New Haven will afford means of comparing the relative strength of the Harvard and Yale elevens...